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Oct 19 2021
Gordon Shield ran over the 11thand 12th of September. We were only allowed to put in one team of five, which consisted of two seniors and three older juniors. Usually we are able to put in two teams of eight. The competition was split into two areas — half of the troops were at Hawequas …
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Oct 19 2021
On 28 August, I ran my community service for Discoverer. We were going to repair a boardwalk in Kildare Nature Reserve found behind Kildare Pre-Primary School. This project is especially special to me because I went to Kildare for pre-school. I have many memorable moments and special memories made in the Kildare Nature Reserve and …
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Oct 19 2021
If you read through all the great articles in this edition of Smoke Signals, you’ll see how 1st Claremont Scout Group is really booming these days. If you look back 10+ years, we had under 10 Scouts at meetings and no Cub Pack. We recovered through hard work, recruitment, and strong long-term planning, with support …
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Oct 19 2021
With the Olympics all around us, the Meerkats spent August and September learning all about what it means to be Proudly South African, one of the Challenge Badges on the Meerkat Trail. One of ADS Lucy du Toit’s innovative programmes involved looking at the emblems and animals on our money. We discovered all sorts of …
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Oct 19 2021
On the weekend of 9-10 October, our Meerkats took up a national challenge to go camping “under the sea”. Along with 119 Meerkats countrywide, they involved their families in an overnight camp at home with many exciting activities in between and regular meet-ups on Zoom. For half of our Den, this was their second camp. …
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Oct 19 2021
The long awaited District First Aid course had started that Saturday morning and I was in a bookshop in Tokai, planning to visit the course later in the day when the phone rang. Looking at the caller I knew that it was a problem of some sort, given that the caller was Jonathan who was …
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Oct 19 2021
Going into the competition I had no idea what I was in for as it was my first orienteering competition. Although I had done map work and had taken bearings before during my years at scouts, I still didn’t know what we were going to need to do in this competition. We arrived at the …
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Oct 19 2021
The value of scouting for our youth is not in direct experience and the memories it creates but in the life skills that those experiences impart – the benefits of which are only fully realised years later. Without an indepth understanding of how this works, it is easy to deride scouts as a anachronistic organisation …
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